Christmas in the air ...

Hello my friends. With all the rain we've had I have found myself thinking about Christmas rather than summer. 

Then I read this weeks LIM blog and I found myself drifting towards a snowy scene.

In the end I made 2 cards. I started with a piece of Sheena stamping card and masked off the lower third with a torn piece of copy paper. I inked the exposed area with distress inks. I used: tumbled glass, stormy sky, faded jeans and chipped sapphire on one and on the other I omitted faded jeans and used dusty concord.

I then flicked water at  them and dried them with kitchen roll after a few seconds and created a snowstorm. Then I stamped the tree in first and second generation black archival ink.

I added some shading to snow and added some snow to trees with a white sharpie.

I then added some frosted lace stickles to the blue one and a mixture of icicle and frosted lace to trees. Shame it doesn't show in pics.

I then stamped the sentiment in black archival ink and added clear wink of stella to Christmas.

Stamps are from Sheena Douglass a little bit scenic range.

I stuck the images down and added card candy to corner. I added frosted lace to them to give them some texture.

And voila' 2 Christmas cards finished. I have 5 ready now, the earliest I have started, Theresa xx.

I would like to enter these cards in the following challenges:

Less is more - theme: faux bleaching

Creative corner challenges - glittermania

Happy Little stamper mixed media  - texture

Word Art Wednesday - anything goes